1st J&K Taekwondo Championship concludes
Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, June 5: Organised by J&K Taekwondo Association, under the aegis of Taekwondo Federation of India, the 1st J&K Taekwondo Championship was held at Multipurpose Hall, MA Stadium, here today.
Vishal Academy Of Taekwondo (VAOT) lifted the overall Championship trophy by bagging maximum number of gold medals.
Dr Ranjeet Kalra, Member Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Assistant Director University of Jammu was the chief guest on the occasion, while Rajan Sharma, Sports Officer J&K State Sports Council and Tirath Ram, District Youth Services and Sports Officer Jammu were the guests of honour. Hari Krishan, AEE and Ashok Singh, Manager Indoor Complex were the special guests.
Prominent among those present on the occasion were PC Sharma, president JKTA, DN Pangotra, organising secretary, Anuj Mahajan, treasurer, Guvinder Rakhwal, Charan Singh, Rakesh Kumar, Nitin Rathore and Atul Pangotra, chairman technical committee. The matches were officiated by the panel of referees including Vikrant Narwalia, Arjun Gupta, Sanjay Kumar, Vivek Padha, Mukta Gupta, Brinder Singh,Varinder Sharma, Adnan, Rajesh Sharma, Arvind satti, Rahula Singh, Anil Singh, Balwinder Singh, Taruna Khajuria, Mousmi Verma, Shefalli Gupta, Harjoot Kaur, Amit Kalsi and Ravinder Singh. About 200 karatekas participated in this tournament.
The Detailed results:Under 7 Yrs Mini Boys: Mohd. Yasir, Tiger Club, Uddhar P Vohra, VAOT and Piyush Sharma, VAOT
Under 9 Yrs Mini Boys: Adhunik Deep, Davinder, Aviral Dewan, VAOT, Sahil Choudhary (Tiger),
Mini Boys (OPEN) Sub Junior: Honey Bali (VAOT) Alex Bhatti, St Petter H School, Rahul Changotra, Kathua Lakash, Kathua
Below 19 Kg Sub Junior Boys: Achtum VAOT, Varun, VAOT, Parth Gupta, Shangrella.
Below 21 Kg Sub Junior Boys: Ragav Mehra, VAOT Shubham Sharma, Tiger Aditya Sharma, Kathua Anmol Sharma,Tiger
Below 23 Kg Sub Junior Boys; Tushar Gupta VAOT Ritik Rayan Army School, Shubham Kumar,Tiger Rohit Bajju, Tiger.
Below 25 Kg Sub Junior Boys: Aryan Gupta, VAOT, Ajay Kumar, Green Wood Danish Malguria, Rajouri Koshank Raj Solan. Rajouri
Below 27 Kg Sub. Junior Boys: Gopal Mehra VAOT, Robin Gill VAOT, Dhruv Sharma,Tiger, Satnam Singh, Green Wood.
Poomsae Results: Sub Junior Boys; Pranav Sharma, VAOT Ragav Mehra, VAOT. Junior Boys: Sankeet Sharma, VAOT Vishal Mahotra, VAOT Senior Boys: Adnan, VAOT and Rahul, VAOT
Vishal Academy of Taekwondo lifts overall trophy
Arunav, Arihant lift U-14 boys doubles title
Jammu District Gulrez Memorial Tennis Tourney
Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, June 5: The pair of Arunav and Arihant got better of Ishan-Aman duo by two sets to one (2-1) with the scores of 6-4, 4-6 and 10-4 (super tie-break) in the summit clash to clinch the Under-14 boys doubles title in the ongoing Jammu District Gulrez Memorial Lawn Tennis Tournament, being organized by Friends Tennis Club, under the aegis of J&K Lawn Tennis Association at Police Lines Gulshan ground, here.
Earlier, in Under-12 singles semifinals, Saksham Mandotra defeated Agastya Sharma in best of 11 games by (6-3) and qualified for the summit clash to be held tomorrow.
Siddarth and Aman Pandoh have qualified for the finals of mens doubles event by defeating Romit Sharma and Deepak in straight sets by 6-4 and 6-4.
Aditya Mehta starts season with a win in Wuxi Classic
Sheffield (UK), June 5:
Indian cueist Aditya Mehta today registered his first win of the season, notching up a 5-3 victory over Sam Baird of England in the opening round of the Wuxi Classic Qualifiers that kicked off at the World Snooker Academy here today.
Mehta displayed some tricky moves today as after losing a close opening frame, the Indian fought back with a 61 break and won two more frames back-to-back to lead 3-1 at the interval.
Although Mehta missed some opportunities post interval to allow Sam to claw back 3-3, he won a crucial seventh frame with a 40 clearance and sealed the match with a 70 break in the eighth frame.
“It was a good win to start off the season especially against a tough opponent. I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s match,” Mehta said. (PTI
Kohli, Dhoni continue to be in top-4 in ODIs
DUBAI, June 5:
India’s Virat Kohli and Mahendra Singh Dhoni were sitting pretty in the third and fourth positions respectively on the latest ICC ODI Championship table for batsmen released today.
Kohli has 846 rating points while skipper Dhoni has 752 points to his name in the list headed by South Africa’s Hashim Amla with 871 points. Gautam Gambhir is the next best Indian, at 17th place with 666 points.
None of the Indian bowler could feature in the top 20. The list is headed by South African Lonwabo Tsotsobe followed by Pakistan’s Saeed Ajmal and another Protea in Morne Morkel.
In the ODI Championship for team, India are at third place with 117 rating points.
Australia and South Africa are number 1 and 2 in the list.
Both Sri Lanka and Pakistan however will be aiming for improvements in their rankings when they go head to head in a five-match series which starts in Pallekele on Thursday.
Fifth-ranked Sri Lanka lead sixth-ranked Pakistan by five ratings points.
If Sri Lanka win all five matches of the series then they will move ahead of England into fourth position on 114 ratings points, irrespective of the outcome of the three-match ODI series between England and the West Indies which starts at The Rose Bowl on 16 June.
If Sri Lanka win 4-1 and England beat the West Indies 3-0, then both the sides will be on 113 ratings points but England will be ranked above Sri Lanka by a fraction of a point.
In sharp contrast, if Pakistan win the series 4-1 or better, then they will move ahead of Sri Lanka into fifth position. In case of Pakistan’s 4-1 series win, both sides will be on 108 ratings points but Pakistan will be ranked above Sri Lanka when the ratings are calculated beyond the decimal point.
Pakistan can even move to fourth if they win all five matches against Sri Lanka and the West Indies win their series against England. (PTI)
J&K students meet President
Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, June 5: Students from J&K met President of India, Pratibha Devi Singh Patel at Rashtrapati Bhawan, during Educational tour organised by 47 Rashtriya Rifles under the aegis of Headquarter 8 Sector Rashtriya Rifles.
Around 30 students and 4 teachers of Kandi Bowl, district Kupwara, were on the 10 day long educational tour which commenced from village tarats on May 31.
These students have come out of the Valley for first time in their life and widened their horizon to see the places of interest at the capital and have a first hand experience of secular and united country.
During the educational tour, students along with their teachers visited Delhi, Dehradun and Mussorie besides Indian Military Academy.
They also witnessed the passing out parade at Dehradun, which immensely motivated the students to join the armed forces in the service of the nation.
The tour was organised by the army with an aim to enlighten the students with the vibrant and colourful culture of the nation.
Kissan Union demands Rs 500 crore relief package
Excelsior Correspondent
REASI, June 5: All Jammu and Kashmir Kissan Union held a protest demonstration in support of their demands.
Hundreds of farmers, from various areas of the Jammu region participated in the dharna and demanded Rs 500 crore special relief package for drought hit 40 lakh farmers of Jammu region and to make entry regarding crop loss in Rabi.
Addressing the gathering, Chairman of the union, Ashok Sharma, pleaded for formulating a comprehensive farm policy for the State, so that the losses caused to standing crops, orchards and live stock due to drought, excessive rains, floods, hail storm and various diseases could be offset by providing full compensation for such loss. He stressed that for the purpose, all the crop and cattle be insured on Government expenses.
He also demanded six months free ration, power supply, seeds, fertilizers and other agriculture inputs for the kharif. He also pleaded for strengthening of local-self Government by incorporating 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments in J&K Constitution and urged the Government to issue Kissan Credit Cards and Land Pass Books before November 2012.
District president, Vijay Verma, pleaded for augmenting irrigation facilities, promoting rain water harvesting management, providing the farmers latest techniques of dry land farming, bringing small and marginal farmers under BPL category and reservation of seats for their children in professional, technical and institutions of higher learning as per the population of farming community.
Bal Krishan, Kamal Singh, Mohan Lal Bali, block presidents, in their speeches demanded establishment of Kissan bhawan at block, district and divisional levels.
Rajinder Sharma, Murad Ali, Shalinder Bhardwaj, district general secretaries, Pritam Singh, Kapoor Singh, Janak Singh, Abdul Rashid Nag and Sita Ram also addressed the gathering.
Saroori inspects various ongoing works
Excelsior Correspondent
KISHTWAR, June 5: Former Minister and MLA Inderwal, GM Saroori who is on the tour of Inderwal Constituency, today visited Sarthal, Doori, Ghan, Bhagran and Angara and took stock of all ongoing projects.
Saroori conducted a series of meetings with the Party workers and locals and assured them that the NC-Congress Coalition Government is committed to their development and it will take all steps to mitigate their sufferings.
Addressing meetings at Sarthal, Doori, Ghan, Bhagram and Angara, he apprised the people of various schemes launched by the State and Central Government for their development.
The people highlighted many problems including shortage of drinking water, unscheduled power cuts and poor road connectivity. They also complained against the hanging electric wires. The public of Doori Poora demanded immediate construction of Ghan Poora road, already sanctioned under PMGSY and immediate restoration of road from Sheela to Bhagram, which has got damaged.
The MLA issued on spot instructions to the concerned authorities to mitigate the sufferings of the people by making the basic amenities of life available to them.
Later, Saroori accompanied by officials of Electric Department visited Moharwari where land has been identified for construction of Receiving Station under RGVKY.
Sarpanch, Farooq Ahmed, Subhash Choudhary Kareem and officers of various departments accompanied Saroori during his tour.
‘Swarankars’ to go on holidays
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 5: Sarafa Association and Swarankar Sangh have unanimously announced summer holidays from June 14 to 17.
President of Sarafa Association, Parjan K Jain in a press statement here announced the decision and requested all the members of both the associations of Jammu Province to close their business establishments from June 14 to 17 on account of summer holidays.
Govt decisions showing positive results: Dutta
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 5: Provincial President, Women Wing, National Conference Vijay Laxmi Dutta today said that opposition parties are frustrated by the historical decisions taken by the Omar Abdullah led Coalition Government in the State.
In a press statement, she maintained that the decisions taken by the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah including Right to Information Act, Accountability Commission, Sher-e-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Programmes for unemployed youths, panchayat elections, Service guarantee and Beti Anmol, have started bearing fruits.
She asserted that the basic purpose of these initiatives is to make the system transparent and to provide speedy services to the people. Now when the decisions taken by the Omar Abdullah are showing positive results and people are appreciating the decisions of Omar Abdullah Government the opposition is feeling desperate.
JUET: Over 900 candidates appear in Sociology combination
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 5: Over nine hundred candidates appeared in the Sociology combination of the ongoing Jammu University Entrance Test (JUET) here today, conducted by the University across the State.
As per the handout issued by the Office of the Public Relations, University of Jammu, 1082 candidates appeared in the four subjects (Sociology, M Lib, Music and Bio-Chemistry) of the Jammu University Entrance Test (JUET) at nine centers including Jammu, Kathua, Poonch, Rajouri, Srinagar, Udhampur, Reasi, Bhaderwah and Leh.
A total of 1152 candidates have applied for Sociology combination, out of which 960 candidates appeared in the test while 192 candidates were absent.
In M Lib combination, 38 candidates have applied and 33 candidates appeared and rest were absent where as in Music combination, out of 29 candidates who had applied 26 candidates appeared in the test and 3 were absent. In Bio-Chemistry combination, 63 candidates appeared in the test out of a total of 86 candidates who have applied for the same while 23 were absent.